2. MOON 1987 Journal 82 20 May Two canyons west of Blind Spring, Providence Mountains, San Bernadino co., CA. up to the spring at the first sharp bend in the narrow, red rock canyon. Just below the bend in the canyon, in the rocky, dense mixed mountain scrub (prickly pear, cholla, catclaw, Yucca, Desert almond, etc.) I saw a large speckled rattlesnake sunning in the wash bottom (Species account: Speckled Rattlesnake). A little further up the rocky & brushy canyon I saw a large striped Whipsnake as it took cover in a rockpile below a Yucca and some catclaw bushes (Species accounts: Striped Whipsnake). Then up to check three pitfall traps that I have in the narrow, rocky canyon below the spring. In two traps I caught a Gilbert Skink and a Desert Night Lizard (Species accounts: Gilbert Skink; Desert Night Lizard). When I put in these traps I had left some buckets to put in later so now I carried three of them up the steep, rocky cliffs to the spring. I found only one place to put in these traps since in the rest of the spring area either cont'd.